Finally finished the third volume of Capital. Not going to lie, it was a challenge and quite a journey, but well worth it. Rip to the many, many highlighters that gave their lives for this endeavor.
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I crack the hell out of the spine before reading cause it keeps the book open easier
Apparently there are some people who tear out a page when they're done reading it
I'm not saying that there's a book hell, but I am saying that you would definitely go there for that
Goddamn, I was coming here to call you a blasphemer for defacing your books with highlighting but that is some ninth circle shit.
Marking up books is good and everyone should do it when reading. Fiction and non fiction. You're actively engaging with the material. Of course unless it's a shared book or ya just don't want to
I get why people do it, especially for dense texts like these, but to me it’d be like hard-coding a commentary track from someone who hasn’t seen the full movie.
I think that’s part of the fun. You go back and read and see what you missed or realize you still don’t understand a concept or learn that you now understand and want to dig deeper. If now you understand and find the commentary unhelpful you erase.
I don't generally highlight when I'm reading for my own edification, but I can't read something dense like this without doing so. It just helps me slow down and think about what is actually important in what I'm reading
My Volume I is littered with post-it notes that stop abruptly after Chapter 10.
That's where you entered THE ZONE presumably
Oh yeah. Smooth sailing from there until the end. That's the ticket!
That is incredibly strange behavior. Books ain't cheap and the library really won't approve of it.
Do that but use every page to roll a joint and try to finish capital
That's just.. A lot of effort for no real benefit.
You can 'break in' a spine without breaking it!! You stand it on its spine, ready to read, with all the pages closed. Then you open a few pages from the front to the table. Then a few pages from the back. Then a few from the front. Then the back. Etc, etc, working towards the middle. It stops the spine warping, too.